Ron Paul touts himself as a candidate who wants to get back to the Constitution and a supporter of personal rights and freedoms. But a closer look at his newsletter, which is published under various names such as The Ron Paul Freedom Report and The Ron Paul Survival Report, tells us that these rights and freedoms should be protected only for upper class, white, heterosexual men. Behold:
On terrorism: "[O]ur country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists—and they can be identified by the color of their skin".
On black people: "We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational".
Oh, those crazy barbarians: "The cause of the riots is plain: barbarism. If the barbarians cannot loot sufficiently through legal channels (i.e., the riots being the welfare-state minus the middleman), they resort to illegal ones, to terrorism".
On the plight of white people and non-Christians: "We now know that we are under assault from thugs and revolutionaries who hate Euro-American civilization and everything it stands for: private property, material success for those who earn it, and Christian morality".
On Martin Luther King Day: "our annual Hate Whitey Day".
Suggestions for alternative names for NYC: Welfaria, Zooville, Rapetown, Dirtburg, and Lazyopolis.
On a reporter from a gay magazine: "[He] certainly had an axe to grind, and that's not easy with a limp wrist".
On gay people: "Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities."
On gays in the military: "Homosexuals, if admitted, should be put in a special category and not allowed in close physical contact with heterosexuals."
On AIDS: "Am I the only one sick of hearing about the 'rights' of AIDS carriers? ... they enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick."
More on AIDS: readers of the newsletter were cautioned not to receive blood transfusions because homosexuals are trying to "poison the blood supply".
Please tell me more, Mr. Paul, about who else you'd persecute if you had the power to do so. Tell me more about your obvious homophobia and xenophobia. Tell me more about how women aren't capable of making decisions about their own bodies. Tell me more about how minorities are ruining your life and the life of every other rich white man in America.
Ron Paul wants to purge the nation of gays, immigrants, poor people, non-whites, and non-Christians, yet he keeps talking about RIGHTS and FREEDOM. I suggest he actually READ the Constitution instead of systematically pissing all over it.
31 January 2008
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